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highlights from recent stories about Temple in the media. Links were active when these stories were compiled,
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December 19, 2006 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Toronto Sun, Trenton Times, Washington Times
The help Flyers captain Peter Forsberg has received from Temple’s School of Podiatric Medicine has received wide attention. “The oft-injured captain did not work out as expected yesterday, but did feel well enough to go to Temple's School of Podiatric Medicine and be fitted for an orthotic for his right foot,” reported Rob Parent for the Inquirer. |
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December 19, 2006 | Denver Post
Leading NBA scorer Carmelo Anthony has been penalized by the league for his roundhouse punch of another player during a brawl last week. Will it hurt his image among fans? "That compromises the street credibility when you sucker-punch someone and then run away," said Marc Lamont Hill, an assistant professor of urban education at Philadelphia's Temple University. "Most people who would see that would say that he's a coward, and they can't respect that." |
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December 20, 2006 | USA Today
Starbucks is being sued by a small coffeehouse that claims the multinational company is a monopoly that kills small business. “Starbucks' vast size and ‘aggressive real estate grabs’ clearly alienate some people, says Bryant Simon, a Temple University historian and author of Consuming Starbucks, to be published in 2008. ‘By being everywhere, they create markets,’ Simon says. ‘But they also narrow the markets and limit opportunities for companies.’ " |
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December 20, 2006 | Norristown Times-Herald
The city of Norristown honored native son Charles Blockson, who is retiring this year as director of the Blockson Collection at Temple. The story notes that “Blockson also created the Charles L. Blockson Collection at Temple University that houses about 150,000 items spanning four centuries of African-American history and that he has traveled the world and has given many lectures about his work.” |
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December 20, 2006 | Philadelphia Weekly
It’s a war of T-shirt slogans with the newly minted “Not in my town, Scumbag” in Upper Darby competing with “Stop snitchin’ ”. The problem with both shirts is that they’re sending vastly different messages, depending on who’s reading them, says Marc Lamont Hill, urban education professor at Temple. “Hill lays out a scenario in which a 16-year-old black girl walks into a store or down the street, and sees a 45-year-old white man wearing the “SCUMBAG” shirt. ‘She thinks that shirt is calling her a scumbag too, says Hill.” |
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December 20, 2006 | The Oregonian
A settlement that pays victims of priest sexual abuse also brings an end to years of a debate that has damaged the local parishes in the Portland Archdiocese. Beyond the financial settlement, the plan calls for more local control of church property and finances. The archdiocese will "have to comply with a variety of state-approved rules," said Jonathan C. Lipson, a professor at Temple University's James E. Beasley School of Law, who has written about church bankruptcy. "There's a bunch of stuff that they have to do that will create some transparency and accountability." |
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December 21, 2006 | Gainesville (Fla.) Sun
Temple education psychologist Frank Farley discusses Type T personalities and the risks they take, such as mountain climbing in dangerous conditions. |
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December 21, 2006 | Associated Press
Are rap lyrics mere braggadocio, or an insight into a violent person’s mind? Philadelphia defense attorney Michael Coard, who teaches a class on hip hop at Temple University (through PASCEP), said attempting to use rap as a window into a defendant's mind is especially problematic. ''It's about boasting. It's about exaggerating. ... It's about acting,'' he said. |
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December 22, 2006 | China Daily
Prosecutor Shen Xiaojie from Northeast China is one of a growing number of legal practitioners who are studying law at Temple University. “After studying for 15 months in a program offered jointly by Temple and Tsinghua universities, he received a Master of Law (LL.M.) degree from Temple in October,” writes Liu Li for China Daily. “Shen and his classmates studied on Temple's main campus, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for two months. During the 13 remaining months, they went to Tsinghua in Beijing, where teachers from Temple's Beasley School of Law instructed them.” |
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December 22 and 21, 2006 | Daily News
Temple trustee Bill Cosby was in Philadelphia for the latest in his series of “call-out” events. |
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December 2006 | Computerworld magazine
Barbara Dolhansky, associate vice president of computer services at Temple University has been named one of 100 of this year’s premier IT leaders by Computerworld magazine.
Dolhansky is also quoted in a story that discusses the value of industry expertise for IT leaders in understanding the implications of a project, and the mine fields that might be encountered. |
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December 2006 | Parenting magazine, parenting.com, CNN.com
Andrea McCoy, associate professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine and Hospital, weighs in on myths surrounding colds and flu, with advice on the best foods when children aren't feeling well.
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